The Norochcholai nuclear power plant will certainly be partly shut from 12 twelve o’clock at night tomorrow (17 ), the Ceylon Electric Engineers Organization claimed.
Its joint assistant Eranga Kudahewa claimed the plant would certainly need to be closed down for 75 days.
The Ceylon Electric Designers likewise advised that the power cuts can be even more expanded as a result of the Norochcholai nuclear power plant being closed down.
The Joint Assistant explained that the Ceylon Electrical Energy Board did not have the funds to import extra components for the nuclear power plant which the Lakvijaya Coal Nuclear power plant will certainly need concerning $ 640 million to import coal after following year to create electrical energy. Nevertheless, he claimed that they had no concept on exactly how they would certainly locate the needed funds, including that if the funds can not be gotten, the CEB would certainly need to depend completely on diesel power generation, stopping working which the period of power cuts would most definitely need to be raised.